Pirelli have updated the teams on their Qatar safety concerns.
Pirelli have not imposed a minimum three-stop strategy for the Qatar Grand Prix, but have instead worked around that by limiting the number of laps the drivers can cover on any one set of tyres to 18.
But given that there were still a notable number of lap times deleted during the Sprint Shootout while two drivers, Charles Leclerc and Lance Stroll, were penalised for excessive track limit violations in the Sprint race, Pirelli spent Saturday night analysing the tyres. “In some cases, tyres that were analysed from the Sprint did show the initial onset of the separation in the sidewall between the topping compound and the carcass cords of the tyres.
“There is no direct mandate for at least three tyre-change pitstops during the race, however this will be a consequence of the above guidelines should the race run its entire race distance.
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